Big numbers.
How do I know that Defiance is doing well? The mere announcement that Defiance was back online has eclipsed all my other articles by a very large margin over the last week. Also people are trying to play the game in such numbers that the servers have been breaking constantly.
The folks at Fawkes Games posted on Discord to reveal that there are approximately eight times the number of people trying to play compared to the stress tests.
The team is implementing some experimental configurations to keep the game stable and progress has been made over the last few days. But gamers can probably expect some downtime and server reboots for now until everything is stabilized.
Check it out on the Fawkes Games client.
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